you had Lost Boys, which is essentially vampirism as wish fulfillment — it was really the first time you can absolutely take a pin and point to these great vampire moments on celluloid or on video, or in print, whatever, where people really seemed to have looked around and gone, ''What is the downside of this thing again? Hang on, you get to live forever, you get to be absolutely sexually attractive and you don’t have zits... You have magic powers; what you're giving up is daylight.'' And this [sentiment] from people who aren't seeing a lot of daylight anyway. Seems like a very, very good exchange.
Oh, Neil. Let me draw pink sparkly hearts, perhaps with bat wings, around this paragraph.
Don't you love it? It was my favourite too.
Since that was pretty much what went through my teen-aged brain the first time I saw
Lost Boys,
I think this paragraph was destined to be my favorite.
Since that was pretty much what went through my teen-aged brain the first time I saw Lost Boys, I think this paragraph was destined to be my favorite.
My reaction was stereotypically gay - "THAT'S the best they can do, wardrobe-wise? I'll stick with Lestat, thanks."
"THAT'S the best they can do, wardrobe-wise? I'll stick with Lestat, thanks."
For the mid-80s, Jamie Gertz's wardrobe wasn't too terrible-- sort of that gypsy chic thing going on. I seem to recall she had several full skirts I loved.
This isn't literary, this is me bitching about spellcheck again.
From SPACE.com:
"Some pessimists predicted the Milky Way was doomed to a grizzly death by dismemberment if enough of these galaxies collide with it."
Those are not intergalactic BEARS. Those are small GALAXIES, so it should be a "grisly death". So very bothersome!
And yes I'm awake early; I get to work a normal day today.
I'm sorry, the image of the Milky Way being ripped apart by huge bears is made of awesome.
Maybe Ursa major is going to rip apart the galaxy?
There needs to be contextcheck, in addition to spellcheck. Because even though "grizzly" was the wrong word, it *was* spelled correctly, so spellcheck just went blithely on without flagging it.
Contextcheck would be an excellent Turing test.
Ursa major with a little back up from Ursa minor?
